In Mortem Meditare (dying Thoughts) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDEED FGFFG HEHHE IJIIJ KLKKL EEEEE MNMMN OPOOP EQEER STSST UEUUE VWXXW YZYYZ EA2EEA2 UB2UUC2| As Life's receding sunset fades | A |
| And night descends | B |
| I calmly watch the gathering shades | A |
| As darkness stealthily invades | A |
| And daylight ends | B |
| - | |
| Earth's span is drawing to its close | C |
| With every breath | D |
| My pain racked brain no respite knows | E |
| Yet shrinks it from the grim repose | E |
| It feels in death | D |
| - | |
| The curtain falls on Life's last scene | F |
| The end is neared | G |
| At last I face death's somber screen | F |
| The fleeting joys which intervene | F |
| Have disappeared | G |
| - | |
| And as a panoramic scroll | H |
| The past unreels | E |
| The mocking past beyond control | H |
| Though buried as a parchment roll | H |
| Its tale reveals | E |
| - | |
| I stand before the dread unknown | I |
| Yet solemn fact | J |
| I see the seeds of folly sown | I |
| In wayward years maturely grown | I |
| Nor can retract | J |
| - | |
| My weaknesses rise to my sight | K |
| And now too late | L |
| I fain would former actions right | K |
| Which years have buried in their flight | K |
| Now sealed by fate | L |
| - | |
| My frailties and iniquities | E |
| I plainly see | E |
| Committed acts accusive rise | E |
| Omitted duties criticise | E |
| In mockery | E |
| - | |
| I feel I have offended oft | M |
| E'en at my best | N |
| Have failed to guide my course aloft | M |
| Perhaps in trival hour have scoffed | M |
| With idle jest | N |
| - | |
| Prone to misgiving prone to doubt | O |
| And frail from birth | P |
| More light and frivolous than devout | O |
| With life's brief candle flickering out | O |
| I speed from earth | P |
| - | |
| Can grief excuse indifference | E |
| With groan or tear | Q |
| Can deep remorse and penitence | E |
| Or anguish mitigate offense | E |
| With pang sincere | R |
| - | |
| Ah Tears can ne'er unlock the past | S |
| Which opens not | T |
| And what is done is welded fast | S |
| Through all eternity to last | S |
| Nor change one jot | T |
| - | |
| Whate'er may lie beyond the veil | U |
| I calmly face | E |
| And sink as grievous tears bewail | U |
| My faults and imperfections frail | U |
| In death's embrace | E |
| - | |
| And as I think the matter o'er | V |
| Pensive and sad | W |
| While its shortcomings I deplore | X |
| The fruits which my existence bore | X |
| Were not all bad | W |
| - | |
| From all which can rejoice or grieve | Y |
| I shortly go | Z |
| And now in life's declining eve | Y |
| I wonder hope try to believe | Y |
| Soon I shall know | Z |
| - | |
| My spirit flees as night enwraps | E |
| To its reward | A2 |
| The earth recedes I feel it lapse | E |
| I sink as dissolution snaps | E |
| The silver cord | A2 |
| - | |
| O Thou whose presence I can feel | U |
| Each hour I live | B2 |
| While passing through death's stern ordeal | U |
| Wilt Thou Thy mercy still reveal | U |
| And still forgive | C2 |
Alfred Castner King
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about In Mortem Meditare (dying Thoughts) poem by Alfred Castner King
Best Poems of Alfred Castner King